Mixe Peoples Services is an indigenous organization supporting human rights work for more than 130,000 people in 30 communities in the state of Oaxaca, particularly for organizing against mining and extraction.

In January 2019, Grassroots International Solidarity Program Officer Mina Remy and our graduate fellow Nicholas Johnson visited Nigeria. The second of the two-part photo-blog series looks at environmental justice struggles at the grassroots.

Maria Luísa Mendonça of our partner The Social Network for Justice in Human Rights in Brazil was interviewed for Democracy Now's recent newscast. She spoke about the situation in Brazil under Bolsonaro's rule.Brazil’s far-right president and former Army captain Jair Bolsonaro visited President Trump at the White House for the first time on Tuesday. During the visi... ... See MoreSee Less